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"Quando farò questa domanda, vorrà dire che sarò diventato davvero vecchio."
Translation:When I ask this question, it will mean that I have become really old.
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Duo accepts When I ask this question, it will mean that I will have become really old maybe they accept When I ask this question, it will mean that I have become really old. I think they allow 'literal' translations because you are right it is hardly English.
Edit Yes When I ask this question, it will mean that I have become really old is accepted.
So what is the best policy: risk a proper translation and get bounced out by the owl, or stick with the grindingly literal and end up not knowing what the sentence means, even when it is accepted. I don't know.
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It seems to me that the best policy is to never answer in broken English, and always report when a correct English answer that is a valid translation is not accepted. A reasonable exception is when you run out of hearts due to this happening multiple times in the same lesson.
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When I will comment on this, it will be after I look up a few things about English grammar on the internet. While I am confused by this sentence, I'm not sure the comments I've seen so far are correct.
Agreed. ¨When I will ...¨ is not correct English so should not be accepted. In fact it i one of those phrases I find I´m often correcting non-native English speakers on (Italian or French)
I was also wondering if ¨fare una domanda¨ can be translated as ¨make a request¨? Or does it always mean ¨ask a question¨¨?
I agree with others that the English here is wrong. The reason is that this is a first conditional, which should be formed with a present simple part ("when I ask this question"), and will + infinitive ("it will mean"). I am an English teacher - the DL error above (using two future forms) is very common as lots of other languages use this structure.
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This is driving me crazy!! I can never get it right. Once I will have got this question right it will mean that I have become really old!! Get rid of this question!! It's stupid and it's driving me crazy!!!! I have done this so many times and I can't get it right..... I will never ever ever ever ever say anything like this to anyone ever ever ever ........
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I just got it right!! After 50 million times I DID IT!!! But I think I have just memorised it because of all the times I have got it wrong.........